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Business

 

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't Jim C. Collins

Whiplash. How to Survive Our Faster Future Joichi Ito and Jeff Howe

CS183: Startup Peter Thiel

The Culture Code Clotaire Rapaille

The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene

 

But, as Machiavelli said, it is better to be feared than loved. Fear you can control; love, never.

 

 

Never start moving your own lips and teeth before the subordinates do. The longer I keep quiet, the sooner others move their lips and teeth. As they move their lips and teeth, I can thereby understand their real intentions.

 

 

Understand: People feel superior to the person whose actions they can predict.

 

 

The wise man profits more from his enemies, than a fool from his friends. – Baltasar Gracian

 

 

Michelangelo, he knew, could find another patron, but he could never find another Michelangelo.

 

Think BIG and KICK ASS in business and life Donald J. Trump with Bill Zanker

The First Time Manager in Asia. Maximizing your success by blending East and West best practices BH Tan

 

“The illiterate of the 20th century was a person who could not read or write. The illiterate of the 21st century is a person who can’t learn, unlearn and relearn.” — Alvin Toffler

 

Managing Corporate Lifecycles Ichak Adizes

 

To change the management of an aging company without changing its system is the same as to take your hands out of the water: this won't affect the ocean.

 

Structure defines strategy. It can't be vice versa.

 

Don't shoot the Dog! Karen Pryor

Everything is Negotiable Gavin Kennedy

 

Proze

 

Soumission Michel Houellebecq

The World of Yesterday Stefan Zweig

The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut

The Hour of the Bull Ivan Yefremov

2150 A.D. Thea Alexander

The Egyptian Stamp Osip Mandelstam

Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky

Masons Alexey Pisemsky

Smoke Ivan Turgenev

The Notebooks of Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Fitzgerald

 

1798 In Train. “Here’s where we’re going—” And then as they looked hastily out the window at a graveyard, “But not now”.

 

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

 

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.

 

You must stoop a little in order to jump.

 

Face moving first.

 

Master and Man Leo Tolstoy

Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov

The dinner Herman Koch

Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami

In a Grove Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

From W.S. Leslie Poles Hartley

 

Philosophy

 

The Hero With a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell

 

The hero is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations to the generally valid, normally human forms. Such a one's visions, ideas, and inspiration come pristine from the primary springs of human life and thought.

 

An astronaut's guide to life on Earth. What I learnt after logging for 4000 hours in space Chris Hadfield

 

When you are the author of your life you don't want it to be a tragedy.

 

Antifragile: things that gain from disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb

 

The Modern aphorism I follow refers to George Santayan: ”A man has a free morality if he judges the world and other people in it with an incredible sincerity”.

 

Mind power into 21 century John Kehoe

Super Genes Deepak Chopra

The 64 Ways Richard Rudd

A New Earth. Awakening to your Life's Purpose Eckhart Tolle

Éros et magie à la Renaissance Ioan Peter Couliano

 

Sociology and Politics

 

From third world to first. The Singapore Story: 1965 - 2000 Lee Kuan Yew

A Brief History of the Future Jacques Attali

Socialism Leo Tolstoy

The Psychology of Peoples è The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Gustave Le Bon

The Psychology of Socialism Gustave Le Bon

The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate Robert D. Kaplan

The Generic City Rem Koolhaas

 

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